<i>Politeumata</i>and Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt

Honigman, Sylvie

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“…AJ 12.8, who affirms the civic equality (isopolitai) of the Jews and the Macedonians in Alexandria. See Honigman's (Honigman 2003) explanation about the origin of the Jewish politeuma in Alexandria in relation to this description. For the definition of the politeuma as a community of soldiers with a particular ethnic labeling and a particular juridical status controlled by particular archons or politarches, see previous note and Zuckerman 1985-8: 171-85.…”

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

2022

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The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“…Penetrating even further into the narrative structure of the Letter of Aristeas, Honigman (2003) has identified two separate sequences of events that determine the action outside of the major digressions. Both are modelled on a narrative paradigm; that is, events are arranged in a specific logical and chronological order so as to be comparable to similar events found in other narratives.…”

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“…The contrast between two very recent studies exemplifies the double nature of the Greek translation of the Law as it is presented in the Letter of Aristeas. It would be correct to say that Honigman (2003) has emphasized the Greek character of the translation, while Kovelman (2005: 101-34) has focused on how the very same representation of the translation is rooted in Jewish modes of thought.…”

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The Letter of Aristeas and the Authority of the Septuagint*

Crom

2008

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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The `ideological' features of the Letter of Aristeas have attracted the attention of scholars in the past, and have gained renewed importance in some recent studies. The present study focuses on a specific `ideological' feature, namely, the question of authority. Starting from the latest insights into the literary structure of the Letter of Aristeas , this study identifies two major focal points in the ancient work and briefly reviews the major characters involved in the translation of the Law into Greek. This analysis leads to the identification of two structures of authority, one text-centred, the other community-centred. These are both justified by the central quality of eusebeia that is shown to be operative in the text on two different levels, as put forth in the rhetorical theory of ethos (self-representation).

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“…1Honigman (2016) 50. For Jews as Hellenes for tax purposes see Modrzejewski (1993) 79–80, (1997) 73–83 and Clarysse and Thompson (2006) 2.138–48, and for their legal status Segré (1944), Modrzejewski (1997) 112–19 and Honigman (2003a). …”

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ENVISIONING THE ART OF EMPIRE IN THELETTER OF ARISTEAS

Leventhal¹

2022

Camb. class. j.

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This article examines two ‘digressions’ within the Letter of Aristeas: the description of the gifts which Ptolemy sends to the Jerusalem Temple (§§51–82) and the survey of the Jerusalem Temple, the city and the Judaean countryside, including the final comments on Persian mining on the Arabian border (§§83–120). I propose that Aristeas envisions the Alexandrian artworks as an imperial subject and that, by juxtaposing the two passages, he comments on the imperial machinations that attend the production of artworks. In concluding I suggest that this anxiety about material cultural production in an imperial context has ramifications for the Letter's central narrative of literary cultural production: the Alexandrian creation of the Septuagint.

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Politeumataand Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

The Letter of Aristeas and the Authority of the Septuagint*

ENVISIONING THE ART OF EMPIRE IN THELETTER OF ARISTEAS

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